An internet search yielded this brief history of Doubledecker Coneflower:
A German plantsman, Eugen Schleipfer found an Echinacea plant that looked very different from the others. After years of selection, a reliable seed strain with two tiered flowers resulted. A set of shorter petals rests on top of the cone while a "skirt" of longer, deep rose-pink petals emerge from the base of the cone. First year plants sometimes produce single flowers. From the second year forward, a high percentage of two tiered flowers appear with either a single or double set of petals. Occasionally, older plants produce single flowers.

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"People take pictures of the Summer,

just in case someone thought they had missed it,

and to prove that it really existed."

- Ray Davies

~ Purple Coneflower (Echinacea)

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Some Cone flower heads from the August trip to Harlow Carr.I have been under the weather today with a bad cough.

My photos have been arranged this year by month. If I do not have anything good to blog I can go through the mists of time to my favourite trips out. . . .

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Simple flowers are shown to striking effect on this Echinacea 'Pink Parasol'. I had already decided it was my flower of the year for 2007 before Thompson and Morgan elected it as their choice for next year's flower of the year promotion. So it would seem that at least I shall be ahead of the game when planning next year’s garden campaign. The plant a hardy perennial flowered in it’s first year but has put on a better show with a little more maturity. . . .

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This is a combo of Sparkler (varigated foliage) and Baby Swan (small version of White Swan) .. the seem to like each other's company and do very well. . .

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I rather like the perennial Coneflower (Echinacea) because it blooms for a very long time in the full sunshine or light shade, is quite hardy in my USDA zone 4 garden and makes an excellent cut flower (although I never do take them as cut flowers) Here are some pictures from my own garden trials.

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(c) 2007 Val Webb They lasted all through the blistering heat of our Alabama summer, but today I finally cut back the remaining purple coneflowers and brought some inside to paint. Here is the resulting gouache-and-colored-pencil artwork. I painted them on a sheet of deliciously rough amate’ paper, which we brought back from the public market . . .

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Like the name says...this coneflower really IS green. As it matures there is also rosey pink in the flower, and the cones darken from green to. . .

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This is my sweet little honeybee on a purple coneflower. . . .

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Echinacea 'Fatal Attraction' was planted in fall of 2006 in a sunny part of the perenial garden and has been a winner for me. . .

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I love purple cone flowers. One day I will get the seeds to germinate and grow like this harlow carr beauty. It is very tactile the cone, and optical to look at.
Am back on nights so I will post a photo a day...I finish next monday morning.Seven nights and eight days, from Monday to Monday.

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Just two years ago I thought collecting seeds in my garden was the easiest thing in the world. I could wait until November and collect fully intact Purple Coneflower seed heads. The only obstacles I encountered where the occasional humans who dug out plants or pulled the cones from my plants. I could wait until the cone had tuned black and some of the stem started to blacken and die before I cut off the heads and saved them for trades or for sowing back into the garden. . . .

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This summer has been so different than the past five.  Everything is lush and green.  Not the usual brown and crispy.  Great for the garden but not so much for the tan.

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Golden Japanese Forest Grass
Hakonechloa macra ‘Aureola’
hah-koe-neh-KLOE-uh MAY-kruh

Eastern Purple Coneflower
Echinacea purpurea
ek-in-AY-shee-a pur-PUR-ee-uh

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I'd heard of echinacea as a means to improve your immune system, and I knew it was an herb or plant of some sort, but never bothered to investigate. Then I invited my friend Bonnie to go with me on a bus tour to Chicago Botanic Gardens, back in the summer of 2004. . . .

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This cone flower has some petals growing oddly--- but the bees obviously don't mind.

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Sunrise Coneflower
Echinacea 'Sunrise'
(ek-in-AY-shee-uh)

This is another of the ‘Big Sky Series’ that Richard Saul at Itsaul Nursery in Atlanta, Georgia has been developing. This is my second year with this particular plant so it wintered over in Westchester County, New York. Although our wacky winter probably wasn’t the best to judge its hardiness on. I actually like the color and size (plant) of ‘Harvest Moon’ better but I have had no luck growing those. . . .

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Now that the Coneflowers are in full bloom, the Butterflies are making frequent visits to the flower garden.

Just one of the side benefits of this wonderful summer flower, which blooms it's heart out despite our hot dry summers!

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I have been carefully watching my new 'Sundown" Echinacea for the first bloom. It was a birthday present from my husband this spring, which I described in an earlier post.

Here the flower is just starting to unfold. The petals have a two tone effect, as the color on the top of the petals is orange, but the backs are more mauve-ish, like it's purple coneflower cousin. At this stage, I am hoping it will be as beautiful as the picture on the nursery tag. . . .

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Marie Iannotti remarks that purple coneflowers initially became popular because "they grew so easily and bloomed so long." But now you're not limited to purple coneflowers: as these pictures of...

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Friday, March 23, 2007

32.3 degrees here on the hill. As the temperature drops tonight, bigger and bigger smiles form on sugar makers faces each time they look at the thermometer falling into the twenties. A hard freeze tonight will guarantee a good sap run tomorrow and sugar house smoke should billow skyward by about 2 PM.

The maple syrup industry is important to Vermont and although the process of gathering sap and making delicious syrup is foreign to most folks, it's something many of us have grown up with. It's worthy of explanation and if I get a chance over the next week, I'll shoot some pictures and tell a story or two. Let me leave that as a promise. . . .

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Remember the Purple Coneflower? ItÂ’s a rugged prairie native that came to prominence in the early days of the perennial gardening renaissance. Every garden had a clump, because...

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Just wanted to bring you quick look at two dramatic new echinaceas.

Green Envy is a breakthrough bicolor – the picture says it all – from event organizer and passionate plantsperson Mark Veeder. This is his first plant introduction, he assessed it in his New York State garden after it turned up in the nearby garden of a friend of his. A dramatic cut flower, and also an intriguing border perennial, I saw it in his garden last year and can’t wait to see it flowering in mine this summer. . . .

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Now that the Washington region has gotten its due dusting of snow, ice-shellacked though it may be, I have pulled out the 2007 garden catalogs for a long look. And I've discovered that once again, the garden's girl-next-door, echinacea ("eh-kin-AY-sha")--commonly called coneflower--is getting dressed in all kinds of colors. . .

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Echinacea purpurea Magnus, purple cone flower.

The seed packet was almost empty but the few plants I got look striking. It has flowered in it’s first year but next year should be taller around 36” or 85cm – ish.

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So here's a switch... NOT happy to get a plant order! I'm on the internet, doing a search for a plant I'm lusting for a couple weeks ago (echinacea 'Prairie Frost'), and I manage to find it! (At FieldstoneGardens.com) I place the order...and specify in comments that I want it shipped next Spring. . .

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This is another of the wonderful light in the morning shots. There's a few things that will get in the way of this series. I'm enjoying sleeping in too much now that cooler temperatures have returned. Many of the bigger perennials are finishing off and because I moved the garden this spring, there are a lot of plants that will hold off blooming until next year. I do have one Kirengeshoma that

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Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'

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My new coneflower - "White Swan". 

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Quick post for now. It's going to be a busy afternoon and I've already had a busy morning. One of my new purchases was double Echinacea 'Razzmatazz'. Wish I could record and send scent through the computer.



'Destined to See' gave me an unusual flower. It's polytepalous (four petals and tepals instead of the normal three) and it is showing some pinching.


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